|
Dash pushes off the wall, back to his allies and slams his back into the cavern's jagged edge.
Kcectic gets another sparks in with his laser pistol as he clips an actuator moving one of the quad legs. The leg sputters before going slack, dragging behind.
Seeing an exposed board, vetch takes careful aim as he props himself against the wall. The board splits the circuit, cutting off the electrons path as a smoldering ember takes root.
Abe is able to stop the physical spinning, but his mind has yet to compensate and adjust as it causes his and Messalina's shots to miss.
The robot continues to burn.
Though the lack of oxygen in the open space quickly snuffs the embers out. The robot lurches forward to follow Dash and is thrown off by the Zero-Gravity. The heavy frame hurtles forward, slamming Abe into the wall.
The advanced sensors calculate faster than the human mind as the robot tries to right itself. Though that must be the board that Vetch damaged as the robot continues to spin, firing it's tactical arc emitter into the corner at Abe and Dash.
The pair jerk and thrash about, unable to avoid the point blank jolt. Your comm devices crackle with static as sparks and electricity flow around the Security robot once more. It looks as if another burst may happen soon.
Abe (SP 3/14; HP 14/16; -4 Str)(Messalina 13/20)
---------------------------
Security Robot (-24; Off-Kilter; Jolting Arc Round 5)
---------------------------
Dash (SP 0/13; HP 2/15)
Kcectic (SP 4/16; 18/18)
Vetch (SP 12/12; HP 14/14)
Kcectic stays where he is, watching the robot attempt to navigate in Zero-G, and fires his pistol twice.
Round 5, Init 5
Vetch circles around it and shoots the bot.
Ranged: to hit;
damage
S: 12/12 HP: 14/14 R: 3/4
EAC: 15 KAC: 16 CMD: 24
Fort: +0 Ref: +3 Will: +6
Right Hand: Club
Left Hand: Pistol
Mouth: Serum of Healing
Spells cast: 1/3
Melee: [ dice=Club]1d20+0[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=(B)]1d6-1[/dice] damage
Ranged: [ dice]1d20+4-4[/dice] to hit; (cover)
[ dice=(F)]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice]3d4+3[/dice] damage.
Closer to death than anytime he can remember, Dash floats in the cave wondering what the next group of fools recruited by the Starfinders will think of his artificial remains.
He has two choices. Use his last spellgem and hope it’s enough. Or use his last few moments to wipe his iComm browser history.
”Aw f@$% it...”
Dash focuses his energies and releases the magic from his gem.
|
|
Dash calls on the last bit of energy that he has and sends missiles of his own rocketing back at the security robot. Each one dents in the chassis more and more.
Kcectic and Vetch each are able to successfully land a series of shots into the joints. Though the fire doesn't seem quite as effective as the electricity it does do the job.
The bad news is the robot still stands, though barely. Several circuits and joints seem to now be inoperable as they hang limp.
Abe (SP 3/14; HP 14/16; -4 Str)(Messalina 13/20)
---------------------------
Security Robot (-36; Off-Kilter; Jolting Arc Round 5)
---------------------------
Dash (SP 0/13; HP 2/15)
Kcectic (SP 4/16; 18/18)
Vetch (SP 12/12; HP 14/14)
Round: 5
Resolve: 3/4 Stamina: 3/14 HP: 14/16
Weapon Equipped = Arc Pistol, static, Shock Grenade
Conditions = Akkata Void Death disease (1 save made)
Psychokinetic Hand = 2/3
Ranged: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +2 Damage: +0 Laser Battery: 13/20 Arc Battery: 9/20
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +1, Str +0 Damage: +0
Messalina
EAC: 15 KAC: 15 CM: 23
HP: 13/20
Weapon Equipped = Semi-automatic pistol
Conditions = None
Ranged: Attack: BAB +2, Dex +3, Weapon Focus +1 Damage: +0 Rounds: 2/9
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +2, Str -2 Damage: +0
”Ow!!”
Abe takes a deep breath and shoots, drawing the AoO.
While Messalina takes another pot shot.
|
|
Messalina is able to land the debilitating blow. The bullet enters into the back of the chassis and the Security robot jerks one final time before floating motionless in the chamber.
The security robot’s design clearly originates from beyond the Pact Worlds. You can possibly sell it as a curiosity to a scholar or collector for around 2,000 credits.
Abe (SP 3/14; HP 14/16; -4 Str)(Messalina 13/20)
Dash (SP 0/13; HP 2/15)
Kcectic (SP 4/16; 18/18)
Vetch (SP 12/12; HP 14/14)
Dash steadies himself against the wall and stares at the disabled robot.
”That was a f@*%ing close one.” He chuckles. ”F@%er almost got us!” Dash winces against the pain, his laugh a struggle that sends fire through the electrical burns. He ignores the pain, breaking into laughter as he celebrates survival. ”Nice shooting everyone. And Messalina too! F@#% yeah! We’re alive! Oww... owww... did the rock just start spinning, or is that me?”
"Ghosts and robots." Kcectic wonders out loud. "I believe I have seen old vids like this, but never expected to live it."
Looking over his companions, Kcectic moves toward Dash and starts to assist in healing him. "We should rest for a few minutes before we keep searching. We do not know if more of those robots are out there."
Vetch urges the party into the room where the bot was found so that the uninjured can take 20 to search the room.
”See that Abe? That make any sense to you?” Vetch points to the weird stuff on the walls.
Vetch will take pictures of the symbols and whatnot for later.
Resolve: 2/4 Stamina: 21/21 HP: 20/22
Weapon Equipped = none
Conditions = Akkata Void Death disease (1 save made)
Psychokinetic Hand = 2/3
Ranged: Attack: BAB +2, Dex +2 Damage: +0 Laser Battery: 13/20 Arc Battery: 9/20
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +2, Str +0 Damage: +0
Messalina
EAC: 16 KAC: 16 CM: 24
HP: 26/30
Weapon Equipped = Semi-automatic pistol
Conditions = None
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +3, Weapon Focus +1 Damage: +0 Rounds: 9/9
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +3, Str -2 Damage: +0
Abe breathes a heavy sigh of relief when the robot finally goes limp, slowly spinning in the airless room. He begs off Vetch for the moment, ”No, I too need to rest, and tinker with Messalina a bit (including reloading her weapon). She took some damage too. Does anyone have a spare Mend spell handy? Sure would take the edge off.” he passes on further investigation until he’s rested.
Once rested Abe will do what he can to decipher the technology.
While he's looking, he'll turn on Messalina's camera and have her video the wall and chamber, recording it on his custom rig.
Taking 20 means you are making multiple attempts at the task until you get it right. It also assumes that you are failing many times before you succeed. Taking 20 typically takes 20 times as long as attempting a single check would take (usually 2 minutes for a skill that takes a standard action to perform).
- - -
Dash taps away at his iComm as he floats in the vacuum.
I can mend the drone, but it takes 10 minutes and I need to rest too. If you think we can afford the air time, I’ll do it, though I suggest holding off until we find oxygen.
"Ahh, right, I'd forgotten the spell takes a while to cast. Let's wait on that."
"These controls are interesting. This hybrid machinery is advanced technology of a type not seen in the Pact Worlds system and that it seems to primarily deal with monitoring the status and operation of larger, unknown systems located elsewhere. This is a control center I bet."
He turns his attention to the boards in front of him, can any of them create some atmosphere in this space if we close the door?
Vetch continues to catalogue and picture the things in the room. They might be of use to the Starfinders.
Vetch listens at the far door, readying to open it when others are prepared.
|
|
Able to figure out a small portion of the puzzle Abe begins to tinker with a few of the controls on the wall down the hallway that the robot was patrolling. They have little to no effect from what he is able to tell.
Kcectic tends to Dash's more severe injuries as Abe begins to tinker on Messalina.
Abe (SP 21/21; HP 20/22; -4 Str)(Messalina 26/30)- leveled
Dash (SP 6/19; HP 18/21)- leveled
Kcectic (SP 4/16; 18/18)
Vetch (SP 12/12; HP 14/14)
Abe learns what he can of the controls and looks around, ”I could spend weeks on this, and our air is limited. Let’s move on - we can always come back to this.” he suggests.
Abe gestures to a panel, ”Hey, what’s this?” He waits for the others to prepare, and he himself gets out his laser rifle, before opening a concealed hatch in the wall.
|
|
Messalina continues to record the strange glyphs as well as the Ambassador's scout the quietly observes, zipping well above in the dim light.
Abe soon finds that the wall panel has been barricaded from the other side. Though with a bit of quick engineering from everyone and a thick bar the group is able to shift the wall panel to the side.
This small chamber was once a storage area for spare parts and small maintenance and repair robots, but it is now empty save for a dead body. Careful inspection of the body shows striking resemblance to the driftdead encountered mere moments ago. Inspection of the body shows numerous wounds but the more obvious cause of death is a self-inflicted wound to her head on the near skeletal frame.
The body is still wearing an Estex Suit I with a brown shaded force field attachment, though the force fields battery is depleted. A pair of syringes are wrapped tightly into the weaving on the Estex Suit with a yellow thick liquid within.
Lying near the body is a personal datapad (Tier 1) along with an empty static arc pistol next to her outstretched hand.
"These can restore fatigue, or any lasting physical and mental damage." Kcectic mutters, having joined the rest once he was sure Dash would live. Looking at the body among the items Kcectics antenna drop low and twitch uncomfortably.
His head fills again with the void, in what is becoming an increasingly common occurrence, and he turns to his companions. "I might be able to make this body speak, but I can not guarantee anything it says will be useful. As a last resort though, only if that datapad leaves us with more questions." Kectic's distaste for dead things clashes with his curiosity and his desire to use his developing powers.
Per the spell Grave Words:
Once a corpse has been subjected to grave words by any caster, any new attempt to cast grave words on that corpse fails. A corpse must have a mouth or means to speak in order for this spell to function, and the spell doesn’t affect a corpse that has been turned into an undead creature.
I don't know if the driftdead is created from the soul or the physical body, or if that matters, so the spell might not work anyway but I figured I'd offer it up.
Abe gathers up the items passing them around to carry, until he gets to the data pad.
"Let's see what we can learn." he mutters as he powers it on.
Vetch looks at the body while Abe fiddles with the computer and Kcectic readies whatever magic he might ready.
Medicie
"Would to be nice to figure out what happened here? There is a lot of weirdness with this body and what we fought outside."
Mysticism - tie between this body and driftdead
"Abe, anything of use on that datapad?"
”Looks to me like this poor bastard figured out what Void Death meant and self-inoculated against spreading the joys of zombification.” Dash points two fingers under his chin like a gun. ”Bang.”
He frowns. ”Not sure how he got past the robot though... unless it activated after he locked himself in this closet.”
Dash picks up the spent arc pistol and looks to Abe. ”Do you still have that spare battery?”
Abe digs through his pack for a spare battery, one of two he carries. He tosses it to Dash, "Help yourself. It's fully charged." (Battery (20charges, bulk -))
”Any of you have any spare slots in your armor for this?” he holds up a generator. ”I’m using my slot currently, but it’d be nice to start charging some batteries.”
He eyes the spell ampule, Kcectic's meaning finally sinking in. "So would this work to alleviate my strength damage?"
If so, and the party agrees, he'll take one of the shots himself.
"I believe so Abe, yes, go ahead and try." Kcectic hands over one of the spell amps.
[i]"I can take this upgrade temporarily, though I intend to invest in new armor if this is the type of mission we continue to be assigned by the Starfinders."
Round 4, Init 5
Vetch moves closer and shoots the bot.
Ranged: 1d20+4 to hit;
[dice=(F)]1d4 damage
Edit: Crit: [dice=(F)]1d4 burn damage.
So...the azimuth crit condition was done wrong here, not once, but twice.
A nat 20 is double damage AND the effect (in this case 1d4 burn). Vetch didn't roll double damage, nor did he properly give the target the burn effect: which is Burning condition, which means the bot should have been on fire until put out, doing 1d4 damage each round, until extinguished.
Of course, in an airless environment, it probably didn't happen for more than 1 round, but still should try to do it correctly.
Vetch gathers up what others don't take and is ready to move on unless Abe has some data to share.
|
|
Kcectic drops down near the body. Placing a hand on the skeletal chest the head twitches as the mouth opens and closes in a speechless pattern as the voice doesn't travel in space with no comm unit.
Dash watches closes as this seems odd at first. The Estex suit bears no insignia of the Acreon whatsoever. Vetch drawsthe conclusion that the more immediate wound causing the death to be a self- inflicted wound to her head.
Abe picks up the personal datapad and sets to work cracking into it's files. Within a quick minute a hologram appears just above the pad, with a young, beautiful human woman with dark hair pulled into a ponytail.
"I am Captain Moriko Nash. I am Captain of the independent Starship the Sunrise Maiden. We recently discovered a strange and wonderful asteroid, floating within the drift. My crew found a cavern within and began to explore the hidden chambers within." She says as he voice sounds weak and broken. "We quickly came under attack by some monster. It...it seemed to consume life energy and could walk through walls. It is terrifying. Wounded I barely managed to escape, hiding within a wall panel. I modified my armors force field to extend a bubble around me as it seemed unable to pass through. Though it is now low on power." She says as she frowns and ends the recording with the following.
“I think I’ve come to terms with it. I won’t survive, but at least I’ve explored strange worlds and seen wonders I would never have dreamed of as a child. I guess everything comes to an end eventually. I’ve always been the master of my own fate, and I’m not going to change now.” Captain Nash holds up a pistol. “When my force field goes down, I’ll fight. But I’m saving my last charge for myself. My life, my death.
“This is my last will and testament. To whoever finds this recording, I leave the Sunrise Maiden to you. It’s a good ship, and no matter where I’ve gone, it’s always brought me home... until now. If you treat it right, it’ll do the same for you. Leave my body where you found it—we came from the stars, and to the stars I’ll return—but the Maiden deserves to keep flying.” Nash takes a deep breath and ends the recording.
Thinking back on the Driftdead Vetch doesn't see a correlation between this monster and a Driftdead. A driftdead is created when a person is killed within the drift and consumed by strong negative emotions.
”I’ve heard of the Sunrise Maiden.” Dash says. ”It was reported lost in the Drift over 75 years ago in 242 ag. If it’s still here on the Rock, then we might have a way home. And a nice f@#%ing ship to call our own.”
"Well that's a pickle. There's another incorporeal creature down here, and a powerful one from the sounds of it. We should be careful." he says without much feeling, worried about their future. So much death here...
He nods with Dash's assessment, "A ship will be nice, but one thing at a time, we have to survived this beast first. Let's see if we can find it."
He tucks the pad in his gear as evidence of their ownership of the ship, should they find it intact and spaceworthy.
"Thanks Kcectic." he gives him the backup generator, and the empty battery from the arc pistol.
Vetch whistles at the message, uncertain that it's legally binding, but also not sure it matters.
"It would be nice to have a ship. Especially since we just lost ours. I'd like not to die here," Vetch agrees with Dash.
"I think I can better handle another incorporeal creature now that I'm ready for it and now that Kcectic demonstrated how to beat it. Let's get at it," Vetch agrees with Dash.
When others are ready, he scouts forward.
Dash considers the situation. ”If it’s another incorporeal monster I think I’ve figured out how to replicate these spellgems and f@#% it up with magical missiles. Captain Nash said she managed to modify her force field to protect her against it, so we should use one of Abe’s batteries to power it up for someone to run interference if we encounter it.”
He looks expectantly at Vetch.
"The force field requires a 10 charge battery, I don't know if my 20 charge battery will work, but even if so, does anyone have any armor with two slots open? My armor is too light and won't work with this field."
Abe takes out his laser rifle and backs up Vetch as before - keeping well back, but trying to provide backup in the event something bad happens.
|
|
Kcectic shuffles around, letting his bodies momentum slowly power the battery as he attaches it to his armor as Vetch scurries onward.
The various lights and controls on the machinery in this room provide dim light. This chamber seems torn between two worlds—its southeastern half is an unfinished rock wall, while the northeastern portion of the room is finished with the same ceramic-metallic plating found all throughout the complex. This looks to be some sort of Auxillary control room.
Abe (SP 21/21; HP 20/22; -2 Str)(Messalina 26/30)
Dash (SP 6/19; HP 18/21)
Kcectic (SP 4/24; 24/24)
Vetch (SP 18/18; HP 20/20)
Abe looks over the system carefully, and again has Messalina record it all for examination later. Then he digs in... "Let's see what this does!"
Once Vetch gives the all clear Dash follows Abe into the room. If needed, he offers advice on the computers.
|
|
Abe is able to hack into the console, though he runs into a completely separate problem now. Understanding the alien programming...
With a few long moments Abe is only able to pick out a few key words that strike out to him.
...Back up power transmission....
...Manuever thrusters....
...Auxiliary fire control....
This strange alien coding hint that this asteroid must have been part of some sort of ancient space-based weapon system.
In addition, the data reveals that these systems and the control room itself are incredibly ancient—possibly even millions of years old. In fact, it appears that the Drift Rock is not just an asteroid that was repurposed as a control center, but that it was a part of the larger structure that was designed and artificially constructed at the same time as the machinery and controls here. And if all that is true, then the Drift Rock represents a find of major significance, for not only is it a piece of heretofore-unknown technology of exceedingly advanced age, but the larger structure it was once a part of may still be somewhere among the stars, just waiting to be discovered!
Abe excitedly tells the others what he found. "I'd love to delve further, but we don't know what the ship was, or where it was damaged/cleaved, so turning something on might blow the whole thing - or launch a missile at Absalom Station."
He pulls himself away from the console mumbling, "If I only knew the language..."
He moves to he next door, re-equipping his laser rifle, and makes ready to proceed behind Vetch.
"Is this the discovery that led the miners to breach their contract?" Kcectic wonders out loud. "It is quite the discovery and certainly beyond the breadth of their orders but I'm not sure that gives them claim to it either. This seems like something too dangerous to be handled by any one organization though."
|
|
The door continues down a short hallway as the group continues to scout ahead.
With its vaulted ceiling and smoothed stone floor, this sprawling cavern has the appearance of a primitive shuttle hangar or landing bay an impression reinforced by the presence of a starship taking up the majority of the space. Only the western wall is finished with the ceramic-metallic plating found elsewhere in the complex; the remainder of the cavern is hemmed by natural rock walls. Huge doors stand in the eastern wall of the chamber—doors easily big enough to accommodate the starship parked in front of them. Of more immediate interest, however, are the two human bodies splayed on the floor just inside the western doors, their internal organs spread artfully on the floor around the corpses.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Vetch says, waving the team to his position. "Those corpses don't look so good. There might be something here that did that."
When others are ready, he will cast Ghost Sound in and around the starship to mimic the sounds of people and men preparing the craft for flight.
Then he will realize the futility of his actions, as there is no sound in a void. Instead he will cast Detect Magic and scan from where he is.
Perception
"Do you think that's the Sunrise Maiden?" Abe says, trying to not stare at it so intently. What kind of computer does it have? How are the shields? Is the powerplant sufficient? How good are the scanners?
A million thoughts rush through his head all at once, before he lowers his gaze to the bodies and their 'artful' pose.
"Yeah, I don't think dead bodies do that on their own. Someone placed them. So someone is still here."
He shoulders his laser rifle and looks around for trouble. He flips Messalina's camera on record.
Dash looks at the bodies, trying to gauge the “art” in their display. If it was him, he’d go with a little more dadaism and a little less impressionism. ”I’d prefer to keep my insides inside. Maybe we just make a run for the ship and blast off this f@#%ing Rock?”
"I don't know if that's the Sunrise Maiden, but right now it might be our only chance to get off this rock." Kcectic says, looking over the ship to see if he can confirm or deny the theory.
"And the longer we wait, the more likely we are to see whatever it was that removed the organs from those bodies."
|
|
Kcectic recognizes the Sunrise Maiden as a Sanjaval Vagabond, a common (though somewhat outdated) model of starship known for its toughness and dependability. According to Moriko Nash’s last will and testament, the Sunrise Maiden is legally theirs now.
As Kcectic Abe peers at the ship he catches a small bit of movement as a strange winged beast scurries across the top just out of view. The creature has near translucent wings and no eyes as it's head seems to be nearly all mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.
Sensing fresh life the beast raises its head and hisses silently towards Abe. A bloodcurdling deep voice rings through Abe's head and is near indecipherable. "Fresh meat so soon..."
The voice switches to Vetch. "Your anatomy is different from the bare one. I wonder how your insides will look?"
The beast flaps into the space, gently floating in the air with ease 30 feet in the air.
Dash (SP 19/19; HP 18/21)
Abe (SP 21/21; HP 20/22; -2 Str)(Messalina 26/30)
Vetch (SP 18/18; HP 20/20)
Kcectic (SP 24/24; 24/24)
--------------------------------------
Monster (DC 17 Knowledge Mysticism)- Fly 30 feet
--------------------------------------
Round: 1
Resolve: 2/4 Stamina: 21/21 HP: 20/22
Weapon Equipped = laser rifle
Conditions = Akkata Void Death disease (1 save made)
Psychokinetic Hand = 2/3
Repair Drone = 1/1 (10%)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +2, Dex +2 Damage: +0 Laser Battery: 12/20 Arc Battery: 9/20
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +2, Str +0 Damage: +0
Messalina
EAC: 16 KAC: 16 CM: 24
HP: 26/30
Weapon Equipped = Semi-automatic pistol
Conditions = None
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +3, Weapon Focus +1 Damage: +0 Rounds: 8/9
Melee/Thrown: Attack: BAB +3, Str -2 Damage: +0
Not at all happy by the screaming in his head, Abe shoots through cover at the winged beast.
(cover)
Messalina flies into the chamber and takes a more direct shot.
Round 1, Init 11
Vetch stares at the monster, trying to understand what it might be...
Know (Mysticism)
...then concentrates his will onto killing it before it can kill him. He casts Magic Space Missile at the beast as a full round action.
force damage
"I kind of like my insides on my insides."
S: 18/18 HP: 20/20 R: 3/4
EAC: 15 KAC: 16 CMD: 24
Fort: +1 Ref: +4 Will: +6
Right Hand: Club
Left Hand: Pistol
Mouth: Serum of Healing
Spells cast: 2/4
Melee: [ dice=Club]1d20+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=(B)]1d6-1[/dice] damage
Ranged: [ dice]1d20+5-4[/dice] to hit; (cover)
[ dice=(F)]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice]3d4+3[/dice] damage.
|
|
Vetch recognizes the beast as a Garaggakal. He knows that they are able to sense emotion as far as the eye can see. While not required to breath and immune to radiation garaggakal's are susceptible to electricity based attacks.
Vetch also knows that they are able to leech life from living creatures from a distance that seems to make them stronger as well as being able to phase through solid barriers. Though it is able to phase through most solid objects, force effects seem to stop the garaggakals in their path as they are unable to phase through them.
The Drift very much remains a mystery to explorers and scholars in the Pact Worlds. While life exists there—usually dragged along when the piece of the plane it happened to be occupying was pulled into
the Drift by a traveling starship—scientists have only recently begun to recognize that the Drift also contains native life. One of these creatures is the garaggakal, sometimes called a “Drift wraith” by those spacefarers fortunate enough to have survived an encounter with one.
Many xenobiologists believe garaggakals can absorb and subsist on the planar energies of the Drift and don’t actually need to feed on living creatures, even though they hunt. A garaggakal will make a temporary lair on a floating chunk of terrain, using it as a base from which to mount hunting forays into the plane nearby. Inevitably, however, the garaggakal abandons its lair in search of better hunting grounds.
Highly intelligent, garaggakals display intense curiosity about other creatures, but their extremely alien mindset makes peaceful interaction difficult, if not impossible. Garaggakals seem to divide all life into two categories: predators (such as itself) and prey (everything else). To a garaggakal, the best way to learn more about a new alien species is to kill, dissect, and eat it—and not necessarily always in that order.
With little time to react Messalina clips the outsider's wing with a bullet as Vetch batter's it's bony frame with sparks from his cables.
Dash (SP 19/19; HP 18/21)
Abe (SP 21/21; HP 20/22; -2 Str)(Messalina 26/30)
Vetch (SP 18/18; HP 20/20)
Kcectic (SP 24/24; 24/24)
--------------------------------------
Garaggakal- (-17) Fly 30 feet
--------------------------------------
”Tthere’s no need to take a look inside me. I look pretty much like those two.” Dash points to the two evicerared bodies. ”So how about you look at these instead motherf@#%er!!”
Calling upon his newly developed magic, Dadh sends three force bolts at the creature.